Britain as a society in 2013 and post 2020
Britain is a collection of Islands.
It has been a hunter gatherer, pastoral, horticultural, agrarian, feudal, conquered, military dictatorship, industrial, republican, empire, and sovereign, society.
The current society is a sovereign state with a diplomatic and civil service with a democratically elected parliament .
The population below elected parliament officials consists of elected local councillors and members of the public.
In terms of influence everyone has the same influence in the country because of the availability of personal international communication links.
In terms of money supply access everyone has the same ability and from the same sources.
The Bank of England stores the money and issues it to the national banks. The national banks then issue it to the banks, building societies, mortgage lenders, personal loan companies, and individuals.
The individuals then return the money by purchasing, tax payments or by investments through the same banks and institutions to the Bank of England.
In terms of class Britain historically had a ruling class, an upper class, a middle class, a working class. These are however hierarchies from a republican, and empire stage in the evolution of Britain.
In Britain currently everyone works. One third of the population are driven by working class incentives. One third by support of working class incentives and one third as dependants of working class incentives.
The incentives are instilled into the society in Britain by placing new members of the population into a census data record. This follows the individual through life and death.
The census data also identifies the incentives in relation to needs, wants, desires, and fears of the population. This influences the laws of our society and controls the life of the individual with the assent of the parliament and the sovereign.
Without the influences of these incentives the laws of our society would break down and the society would move into anarchy before becoming the next type of society in a cyclical sequence.
Once the incentives are identified through census data they are communicated to the population through broadcasting, advertising, literature, music, art, sculpture and architecture.
Through the influences of these arts the individual is encouraged to manufacture products then take leisure time from work to consume products that they manufacture and thus perceive a need to manufacture products again.
The cycle of manufacturing, leisure time and consumption is motivated by associating it with a limited resource marked with the emblems of British society. Money.
The products that the population are encouraged to manufacture first relate to the needs of the individual.
These needs are most prominent in an individual, hunter, gatherer, pastoral, horticultural, agrarian societies and so form the basis of our historical and current society.
The purpose of these manufactured products is to ensure survival of the population as so the longevity of the society.
These products are Environment, Water, Food, Energy, Architecture, Medicines, Education and Transport.
The products that the population are motivated to create next are the wants and desires of the population. These are the value, quality, beauty and cultural products. These are emblematic of feudal, conquered, military dictatorship and industrial societies since they create prestige.
These products are literature, music, fashion, art, sculpture and architecture.
The products that the population are motivated to create next are those that respond to the fears of the population.
These are security and reproduction.
The purpose of these products is expansion.
These are prominent in Republics and Empires.
The incentives mentioned have existed since Britain was colonized. They have become progressively interdependent and complex.
The incentives come together to create a sequence to create a society. Needs leads to values and so to quality and then to affirmations of beauty and then to culture and then to society.
Britain historically was characterized by its clear values, its quality, its a culture with ideals. These date from a time when it was an empire that covered a fifth of the earths land surface and a quarter of the planets population.
The empire has gone and currently only dependencies remain.
In the next fifty years there will be key issues that will cause our needs, values, qualities, affirmations of beauty, society and culture to change due to depletion across interlinked parts of our culture.
The World is entering an era of continuing energy, resource and environment depletion.
However the population of the World is increasing.
Therefore the World can be said to be in a crisis.
Each country has to break its links with its former trading partners and establish an internal economy, energy, resource and environment strategy that matches its own population growth. Once established the links with the rest of the world can be re-established at levels that can be sustained or improved.
In Britain the interlinked parts of our current society that will need to be stabilized internally are energy, natural resources, environment, communications, manufacturing and social hierarchy.
The energy resources of Britain are depleting.
Britain is dependent on imports to allow its population to survive.
This cannot be maintained.
In Britain the only internal viable energy resource is coal. It exists in sufficient volumes to provide energy into the next century and so allow technological development of new energy sources to occur.
Extraction of coal resources will require environmental depletion to be managed as a sustainable resource.
The other energy resources, crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, nuclear, wind, hydro, solar, bio-fuels and waste cannot maintain our current level of electricity production and consumption at a sustainable level into the next century.
Currently no other suitable alternatives energy sources exist.
Therefore Britain must adapt its existing national energy system to a localized one based on renewable energy resources and reduce consumption needs
Britain’s natural resources are coal, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate and arable land.
Source: CIA World Factbook 2013
These are all depleting below the levels required to assist the population of Britain to survive.
These resources cannot be extracted without energy.
Therefore the energy strategy must be developed on minimal use of existing, internal resources.
Environmental depletion as climate change in Britain will cause.
An increase in environmental temperatures.
An increase in average winter rain, hail, snow, ice, fog, precipitation..
A decrease in annual rainfall through the Spring Summer and Autumn seasons.
Source: UKCP Map The Met Office 2009
An increase in sea temperatures around Britain.
A change in bio-diversity in the seas around Britain to match increasing sea temperatures.
A change in bio-diversity on land in Britain to match the new climate.
An increased amount of moisture rich upward air movement due to changes in the gulf stream will cause an increase likely hood of hurricanes and tornadoes along the western coast of Britain.
Source: About the North Sea: Key facts". Safety at Sea project: Norwegian Coastal Administration. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
Source: http://www.met.ie/marine/marine_climatology.asp
An increase in the likely hood of flooding in Britain.
A movement of the population away from the west coast, north west coast, north east coast, and south east coast flood affected areas in Britain.
A need for flood control measures and also water storage measures to allow for wetter winters and drier summers.
A need for more compact urban areas with increased populations in existing towns and cities.
Communications in Britain are only sustainable through the use of energy. Energy depletion will reduce the ability of the society to gather information and communicate. This breaks the census data link for each individual. It is also the point where our historical records will end.
Manufacturing ability in Britain will reduce without energy and natural resources This will weaken the established manufacture, leisure, consume, manufacture sequence that encourages the population to work for the benefits of each other.
The population therefore is likely to prioritize its own individual needs and revert to a state of self-preservation involving a hunter, gatherer lifestyle.
This is increasing in the current economic society in 2014 in Britain since already 20.3 million households out of 27 million are dependent on welfare payments.
Source: The Observer, Saturday 6 April 2013
This accounts for approx.. 60,000,000 people out of a population of approximately 63,400,000.
Britain is no longer an empire or a united kingdom. It retains a feudal, republican, empire social hierarchy to control the land ownership, property ownership and the resources. Britain will, if Scotland goes independent in 2014 shrink and also loose coastline access. If Ireland and Wales follow and achieve independence then Britain will shrink and become England again. The advantage to this is that each country becomes responsible for its energy, resources, environment, laws, and money supply. Within each the historical hierarchies can be maintained but each country can then develop its own needs, values, quality, beauty, culture and society.
This will initially be achieved under the rule of one parliament and one sovereign. It is likely however that since the current sovereign will change at least once and perhaps twice in the next fifty years that each country would seek to establish its own monarchy or republic.
Britain will lose its historical definition and move into an anarchy each time a new sovereign is established. Each time history will need to begin again as the money, broadcasting, advertising, literature, music, fashion, art, sculpture and architecture change to establish the prestige of the new sovereign over the previous historical stability.
Britain must adapt to not being an empire alone but being an isolated group of islands in a world of gradually depleting energy, natural resources, and environment.
It can then look internally to secure its populations future and its diverse culture.
Ian K Whittaker
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Updated 14/07/2014
14/10/2020
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